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[Rothenstein does does not identify which of the “various hands” wrote the commentary below that accompanies his portrait drawing.]

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, born at Alnwick in 1840, is
almost the last survivor of the group of whom William Morris was
the most famous. But, unlike that great man, Mr. Cobden-Sanderson
is primarily a man of religion, and if his religion is chiefly a thing of
his own invention that is a thing for which the Christian minority no
less than the Agnostic majority is partly to be blamed. The religion of
the churches is from the point of view of the outsider a dead mediae-
valism. The agnosticism of the crowd is an impotent laisser faire.
Money and the making of money is the spur to action to-day. Material
convenience and enrichment are the modern man's ambitions. Against
these things Morris fought, and with him Cobden-Sanderson, and they
attempted by personal handiwork to show that useful things could
be not only beautiful but the source of beautiful life. By propaganda
they sought to create a movement of revolt against the commercial-
ism of the modern world and a return to the mediaeval conception of
good workmanship and good society.

Mr. Cobden-Sanderson as workman, as printer and bookbinder, has
done what few have attempted. He has sought for himself a vision of
God and given his vision noble and holy utterance in the printed word.
Let us praise "men rich in virtue, studying beautifulness; living in
peace in their houses."

References

Rothenstein, William. Twenty-four Portraits with critical appreciations by various hands. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1920. Internet Archive version of a copy at the University of Toronto. Web. 20 November 2012.